This course is actively under development in summer 2026. Check back soon for additional details.
Description
AI systems are not neutral tools but sociotechnical ensembles of code, labour, infrastructure, and ecology (Kudina & Van De Poel, 2024). This course asks how educators might build, co-create, and re-imagine these systems from within post-digital, relational, and justice-oriented pedagogies. Drawing on design justice (Costanza-Chock, 2020), posthumanist pedagogy, and STS perspectives on sociotechnical imaginaries (Jasanoff, 2015), AI literacy is framed as an entangled, emergent practice—not a transferable skill set. Justice-oriented approaches, including accessibility, disability justice, and equity-centred design, are treated not as add-ons but as generative design principles: starting points that expand what becomes possible (Hamraie, 2017).
Responsive by design: This course treats the current AI landscape as live curriculum. Labs and readings are updated each iteration to reflect emerging tools, shifting policy, and new scholarly interventions.
Learning Objectives
In ETEC 565R, you will:
- Examine creativity, authorship, and acknowledgment in relation to AI
- Interpret algorithmic processes and refine AI outputs
- Experiment with AI-mediated creative production across modalities
- Design inclusive and participatory learning experiences with AI
- Apply ethical and critical perspectives to AI-mediated designs
- Engage accessibility and disability-justice principles in design
- Reflect on cultural, ecological, and institutional dimensions of AI